Jasmin is joining our team as a fully qualified Personal Trainer and we are delighted to have her on board,

“My Philosophy  is I aim to take care of my clients individual wants and needs. Everyone is different and requires something unique. I’m approachable, friendly and motivated!”

“I want to help my clients with…”

• 1 on 1 physical training
• Feel ALIVE Fitness Camps
• nutritional advise
• weight loss
• long/short distance training
• circuits
• in & out-door training
• fitness testing
• support for achieving your goals (even outside of training)

Check out her link to find out more about the huge success that Jasmin has had already as a Team GB Professional Skier!

http://taylorjasmin.com/

More fantastic changes from one of our latest clients.

If you want to know more on how to get your health and body back in less than 28 days, then get in touch with us for a FREE NO OBLIGATION consultation

The next online RAPID MUFFIN TOP MELTDOWN kicks off Monday 26th March ‘click’ the link below to register and guarantee to be a jean size smaller in only 21 days!!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/21-Day-Muffin-Top-Meltdown/328311570513775?sk=app_102515556471926&app_data=1

If you want the same results in less than 21 days, what are you waiting for sign up to the March Feel ALIVE Fitness Camp NOW

Either click on the link above this news  or the ‘buy now’ below

The January Feel ALIVE Fitness Camp has been up & running for the past two weeks and the guys have been ROCKING, the changes in them both mentally & physically in the short period of time shows that we have created a Fitness Camps that really does put its money where its mouth is!

We are not afraid to say that we guarantee that if you follow our ALIVE system for 21 days you will drop at least a jean size, but as important if not more you will become healthier, learn how to make the right food choices, improve your relationship with food, STOP dieting, calorie counting and become ALIVE again!

So thats enough from us, we will let you read some of the comments that our Feel ALIVE Fitness Campers have posted on the members group after ONLY 11 days……..

Register for February Feel ALIVE Fitness Camp NOW

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We live in a world where more than ever people are battling with the bulge, obesity is now a epidemic. A lot of people look for the simple solution to ditching the fat, crash diet, fad diets, diet groups, calorie counting, coloured days I could go on for a long time. Most people who you speak to have tried everything but still they end up a square one – the reason why? Because nothing really changes, and if nothing changes, then nothing changes.

There is no ‘quick fix’ no ‘magic slim pill’ it comes down to a few simple factors, correct lifestyle, correct nutrition and exercise. More importantly in that order, remember you can’t out train a bad lifestyle and nutrition!!

As most of us go through life jumping from these yo-yo diets, we spare little consideration for the effect this form of weight loss has on our health, many health experts will now say that fad dieting places stresses on your body and the repeated stress of losing and gaining weight maybe as bad for your health as being overweight as there are many serious issues that surround these fad diets as they do not address internal health and nutritional rejuvenation!

FAD DIETS vs NUTRITIONAL CLEANSING.

Fad Diets - Often nutrient deficient, quick fix yo-yo effect, continued cravings, nutritionally restrictive, focused ONLY on weight loss not fat loss. They do not encourage good eating habits which cause stress to the body.

Nutritional Cleansing - Gives the body more nutrient rich foods, good protein, fats, correct carbs & minerals. Creates a long term lifestyle that promotes good internal health, a healthy body can’t store fat! Allows you to gain weight management control and the brain to control cravings. Nutrient cleansing floods the body with high- grade nutrients. By cleansing correctly you are able to focus on good quality of life and longevity.

Instead of simply being caught up with just weight loss we should be looking at overall internal health which is about balancing and fueling the body correctly, this involves a change in lifestyle. True, long term fat loss is achievable if you practice fueling the body with the right nutrients, staying hydrated, engaging in exercise and helping the body rid of unwanted impurities! The body needs internal hormone balance and nutrient fuel to maintain normal balanced blood glucose levels.

To conclude by cleansing the body of the unwanted impurities then you will be able to ditch the unwanted fat, for more information on this and a programme that will get you blasting the unwanted fat visit  http://www.facebook.com/pages/28-day-FAP/328311570513775

When I first contacted Matt in September my email read something like “Help!”. I had let some bad habits creep in and at that time I was not only at my heaviest weight ever, but, was also feeling tired and sluggish all the time with little energy. After meeting Matt I felt re assured that working with him would put me back on track as he takes a holistic approach to health and fitness, taking in to account my lifestyle including what I eat and drink, but also sleep and exercise.

I’ve now been following his advice for 6 weeks and I feel amazing! His detailed planning may seem unconventional and at times quite radical, but I have never felt better. I sleep soundly every night, have boundless energy, l’m  less stressed and have so far lost 18lbs and 9% body fat and am over half way to my goal. My friends tell me how great I look and getting back in to clothes which haven’t fitted me for some time is a brilliant feeling.

I can’t recommend Matt highly enough.  He had totally transformed my attitude to heath and the affect food has on my overall wellbeing. I will never go back to the old habits as I have developed new ones which are far better for me.

Cathie (November 2011)

Fat Attack

Hey guys,

Matt here from bSimply Health & Fitness Ipswich & Suffolk’s leading fat loss expert here to tell you about our new 28 day fat attack programme!

Now this is not a weight loss programme it is a FAT loss programme want to make this clear from the start. We are attacking your bodyfat right from the start on this by going through the detox process and working with your bodies hormones.

There is exercise built into the programme and this will help, but your lifestyle and nutrition is KEY

Briefly How the programme works.

• Simply drop us an email stating that you are interested we will then forward you more details to read through to make sure you understand how the 28 days work, from this point you can then decide if it is right for you, as it won’t suit everybody

• Each week we forward you through the programme for those 7 days, no more as we want to take this 1 day at a time so not to confuse you and keep the focus

• Daily email & online guidance and support to answer any questions  as you take the journey through the programme to ditching the fat

• We will electronically post the science behind the programme to you as we go through each stage so that not are only ditching the fat your learning about how the programme works in order for the fat to not return!

• This one is important, this is not a ‘fad diet’ or ‘weight loss group’ this is a fast, brutal attack on your unwanted body fat! Working with your body, to achieve  hormone control, in particular cortisol, re-balance the body and clear the toxins by way of detox and help vital organs play a part in your fat loss the liver in particular, again we will explain the science on these areas as you go

The programme is designed to give you a step by step guide to ditching body fat, it can become a stable lifestyle with the changes you make so at the end of the 28 days we can support you with the decisions and goals you will have then, help look at how to keep that fat off now the hard work has been done and the ways of a 80/20% lifestyle!

If you stick to this programme we can 100% guarantee you will DROP body fat. We have had other clients go through this programme already and they have ALL had success, dress sizes dropped all over the place.

There will be points that this is tough, seems samey, remember if you do it, your are doing it for your ideal body!  Not always to please the taste buds, having said that good nutrition and some imagination with food can make it very enjoyable

You need to remember that you have tried other ‘diets’ & programmes before which haven’t worked or you wouldn’t be doing this one, sounds harsh but true. The point we are making is that you can’t adjust this programme if you start changing things it doesn’t become this programme it becomes yours and that WON’T work!

If this sounds like something that you want to learn more about and you are at the point of no more excuses then get in touch with us and make the most of the short term discounted offer

Cheers for taking the time to read this

Matt

I wanted to write about my recent experiences with trialling intermittent fasting. What you’ll learn is the specific program/diet that I have been using has allowed me to drop significant amounts of body fat without losing muscle mass, strength, fitness levels or vitality. Keep in mind that this is written from a body composition and health perspective. So in other words, can intermittent fasting help to achieve greater health, fat loss and/or muscle gain?

So with that said, I’ve personally experienced major fat loss and muscle gaining results with an intermittent fasting nutrition plan. Initially, I was able to achieve visible fat loss, and measurable strength gains simultaneously. This surprised me. However, since then I’ve found intermittent fasting to be a sustainable, and even enjoyable, system that has helped me optimize my body to be more athletic, aesthetic, stronger and healthy. Whether you’re trying to gain muscle, lose fat, or just be a healthier resilient person, intermittent fasting might be a lifestyle habit that makes sense for you.

A Quick Word on Body Types

We all have different body types these are the cards we are dealt with and you can’t change that (not 100% anyhow) If you struggle with gaining fat and losing weight Intermittent Fasting is probably one of the best thing you’ll ever learn about. So in other words, if you’re naturally have endomorphic tendencies (like I do), Intermittent Fasting is a great option for dropping body fat (I would argue the best option actually). However, if you’re someone who is naturally skinny and you have an extremely hard time with gaining weight and even bodyfat (ectomorphic tendencies), intermittent fasting probably isn’t for you.

My Experiences

For the past 2 months I’ve been following an intermittent fasting program, within my nutrition plan along with carbohydrate cycling (this is not refined carbs, bread/pasta etc) I had heard about intermittent fasting from a fellow fitpro and decided to read about it in a few articles and do some more research, I was a bit dubious at first after all, doesn’t eating inspire metabolism? Aren’t you suppose to eat many small meals throughout the day or ELSE you’ll feel tired and lose all your hard earned muscle that took  hours of hard work? Well the reality is all those old conceptions are myths and have no scientific backing. It took bumping into a few sites and learning from a few sources for me to start to question all the ‘gym bro knowledge’ that I’ve heard for years to give it a try. After only 2 weeks, I could already tell that I’d likely be committed to this way of eating for life. I’ve already seen fat loss results while also gaining strength. This indicates a REAL body re-composition where I’m gaining muscle while simultaneously losing fat. I’m feeling more energy (especially in the mornings when I’m fasting). And there’s something within my intuition that tells me this is a more healthful & natural way of living.

Why Intermittent Fasting Makes Sense to Me

When evaluating how our bodies evolved, it’s seems reasonable to think that the human body was in a fasted state a lot of the time, maybe not by choice, but by circumstance. Food is scarce in the wild. There is no tupperware, no microwaves, no packaged convenience foods, and no take-away. Hunting and gathering takes effort (aka exercise), and often coming up empty handed and remaining hungry would be unavoidable. This is why the human body is extremely effective at storing fat (I know from experience). In other words, in nature food was probably scarce for most of human evolution. Human beings definitely weren’t pigging out continuously, and most likely the feeding times were irregular and erratic. So what is the point? Replicating conditions of how the human body evolved will likely provide health and wellness. So my point is that the human body evolved to have times of being fasted.

Fed vs. Fasted

Stubborn Fat

If you look at modern society, we rarely let ourselves go fasted. I was under the impression that it was a muscle building sin to not have something in the stomach at all times and that you had to eat to fire the metabolism! I don’t know what it’s like to be on steroids, I have never done them, but it seems like most of the ‘never let yourself go hungry’ preaching is coming from the bodybuilding community (the gurus being pumped up). At one point I listened to this argument and way of living. However, it just didn’t work for me I found it nearly impossible to actually lose fat, especially the stubborn navel fat. I felt like crap a lot of the time (especially in the afternoons), I was drowsy and un-alert, and looking back on it now I just didn’t feel vibrant and healthy.

Even if you’re not into fitness and bodybuilding, the average person is in a ‘fed’ state continuously throughout their day and lives. Not only are we eating stuff our bodies weren’t designed for, we are eating too much of it, and too often. It now makes sense to me that keeping your body in a ‘fed’ state continuously is going against our evolutionary programming and could be one of the causal factors behind diseases of civilization as well as the obesity epidemic we are fast approaching!

Intermittent Fasting Scientific Backing

There is an increasing amount of studies being done on fasting. The results are starting to compile and short-term intermittent fasting has been found to have the following health and fitness benefits:

• Decreased body fat & body weight

• Maintenance of skeletal muscle mass (you won’t lose muscle in other words)

• Decreased blood glucose levels

• Decreased insulin levels & increased insulin sensitivity (avoiding diabetes and obesity is a good thing right?!)

• Increased lipolysis & fat oxidation (which leads to ABS )

• Increased Uncoupling Protein 3 mRNA

• Increased norepinephrine & epinephrine levels (more energy)

• Increased Glucagon levels

• Increased growth hormone levels

How to Implement Intermittent Fasting as a Lifestyle

So how can you make intermittent fasting into a lifestyle/system/habit? Well the good news is there aren’t any hard ‘rules,’ only suggestions and principles. The principle is simple: let yourself go hungry occasionally. Some people (such as the author of one of the books I recommend called “Eat Stop Eat“) recommend fasting once or twice a week for 24 hrs. Personally, I’ve followed a program of 16 hour fasts twice a week and one 24hr fast once per week, and not one day after another. For me, this made sense and worked well with my nutrition plan.

Like I just mentioned, the whole ’3 square meals’ or ’6 small meals’ and ‘breakfast is the most important meal of the day’ fads are conventional wisdom crap that has been repeated so much that we assume it to be correct. The only problem is it doesn’t have any basis in nature or current research.

So basically I have my last meal at around 8pm. I skip breakfast, do my workout routine with weights at before midday in a fasted state (taking BCAA’s before my workout & after), and have my largest meal of the day at around 1pm. From 1pm to 8 pm I follow the nutritional principles in my programme (I’m absolutely NOT perfect and this is what has worked for me. Perfection isn’t the goal, excellence is.)

Keep Learning about Intermittent Fasting!

I’ve found that one of the most motivating forces fully understanding the implications of certain actions.

In other words, if you ‘sort of’ understand how intermittent fasting has potential to help you in your fat loss goals, it’s likely that you won’t be fully motivated to give it a fair chance and reap the full benefits of it.

In order to make sure you fully understand the implications of intermittent fasting I HIGHLY recommend you continue to study this lifestyle in detail. Make it a challenge for yourself to gain a detailed understanding of how intermittent fasting works and how you can really implement it into your life. Here are a couple resources you should check out or if you have any questions then just drop me a line.

Brad Pilion

-          www.leangains.com

-          Eat Stop Eat by Brad Pilon (available from Amazon)

Matt